Detailed Programme
| Friday 22 May |
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| 10:00-10:30 Entrance hall |
Arrival and registration |
| 10:30-12:15 room tba |
Session 3A – Wealth and income in the Low Countries Organised by Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ |
| Daan Van den bussche (University of Antwerp), Nicolas Brenninkmeijer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and Wouter Ryckbosch (Ghent University) – Wealth and the geography of capital in Belgium, 1855–1937 peer commentator: Hans de Vries Bas Spliet (Utrecht University) – Did craft guilds suppress wages? Evidence from the post-abolition Low Countries Ellen Roelandts – Contesting wealth: The politics of wealth taxation in Belgium since 1880 |
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| 10:30-12:15 room tba |
Session 3B – Daily life of enslaved and formerly enslaved individuals Organised by Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ |
| Pouwel van Schooten (Leiden University) –A garden of one’s own? Landownership of formerly enslaved people in 18th-century Galle and its hinterlands peer commentator: Iliana Tintori Reyes Marie Keulen (Radboud University) – Immersed in plantation society: Friction and daily life in Moravian teacher training schools for enslaved boys in colonial Suriname (1847-1863)st Dries Lyna (Radboud University) – Economies of trust? Rich lives of the urban poor in the Cape Colony |
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| 10:30-12:15 room tba |
Session 3C – Labour, industry, and inequality Organised by Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’ |
| Catherine Simpson (Utrecht University) – Air pollution, industry, mortality during the Dutch industrial revolution. Maastricht 1850-1950
Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) – Land, labour and globalization: Revisiting inequality in British India Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen) – Africa@Work: Reconstructing a century of labour and livelihoods in Africa |
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| 12:15-13:15 Lunch room |
Lunch break |
| 13:15-15:00 room tba |
Session 4A – Capitalism, mobility, and labour Organised by Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’ |
| Dominique Ankoné (VU Amsterdam) – The generation of 1939: Trần Đức Thảo and the Délégation Générale des Indochinois, 1936-1945 peer commentator: Sanâa May Swart Yowali Kabamba (Utrecht University) – Navigating integration structures: The lived experiences of refugees on the labour market in Wallonia, Belgium Kristof Loockx (University of Antwerp) – Kinship, mobility and expertise: Croatian dredgers in late nineteenth-century Antwerp |
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| 13:15-15:00 room tba |
Session 4B – Social history of colonialism in Asia Organised by Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ |
| Sanayi Marcelline (Leiden University) – Between bondage and freedom: Manumission in the late 18th- and early 19th-century Colombo peer commentator: Pascal Konings Philipp Huber (International Institute of Social History) – A longue durée understanding of slaving in Macau Sophie Rose (Leiden University) – Colonial madness: Mental deviance, normativity, and practices of care in the world of the Dutch East India Company |
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| 15:00 Max Nettlau |
Closing words and informal drinks |

